When running my last startup, the first time I ever considered getting executive coaching for myself and my team was at the Rock Health Digital Health CEO Summit , I saw one of the panelists talking about hiring an executive coach for themselves and for their team. Up until that point, I had been building my start-up without executive coaching. I realized we needed a bench of amazing coaches, thinking that getting executive coaching for the executive team and me would be something that would help facilitate
Football teams, the Olympics teams, soccer teams, boxing/UFC fighters, and basketball teams have coaches, why not your start-up? The best CEOs and founding teams get help and advice from advisors, board members, their team, and their customers; having a coach is another support system most founders don’t think of. Even the best of the best teams in the business world add executive coaching to help the founders. For example, Apple’s founder Steve Jobs, former executive chairman and CEO of Google Eric Schmidt
The band Metallica has been around for decades; in the movie “ Metallica: Some Kind of Monster ” the band was insightful and hired a coach Phil Towle to help keep the band together since they lost their bass player Jason Newstead and the band was falling apart, an executive coach fits a need in that same way helping a person grow in their career.